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The group of the so-called "Hungarian toreutics" is closely related to the "Early Bulgarian" dishes (Darkevich, 1976; Marschak, 1986; Fedorova, 1990; TO, 1996). Vladislav P. Darkevich believed them to be a Pannonian import, whereas Boris I. Marschak and Natalia V. Fedorova were of the opinion that the place of their origin was the Ural region, the so-called territory of "Magna Hungaria". The group consisted of five round massive dishes with the heavy vertical border and the decor inscribed into the round central medallion with the gilded background. Four of them pictured horsemen (fig. 6, 7). Two were practically identical in terms of composition: on a slit dish from the Yamal peninsula (fig. 7) and on the dish from the upper Kama region there were pictures of riders on massive horses with a large bird sitting on a rider's arm. Two more - a dish from Muzhy (fig. 6) and a dish from the Vasilenko collection from the Yamal peninsular, which was probably found in the Khetose burial site, had pictures of fully armed horsemen without any accompanying personages.
